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Amazed
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Amazed is a song written by Marv Green, Aimee Mayo, and Chris Lindsey. The first version of the song was recorded by the American country music group Lonestar, Lonestars version is their longest-lasting number one single and biggest hit, spending eight weeks at the top of the Billboard country chart. A remix of the song made it number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has sold over 1,650,000 digital copies in the US as of February 2016. Only five years after Lonestars Amazed topped the Billboard Hot 100 did another country song top the chart, Amazed and Inside Your Heaven are the only country songs in the 2000s decade to hit number one on the Hot 100. Since the release of the original, the song has been covered by Bonnie Tyler, Duncan James, Ben Mills, Boyz II Men and Shane Filan have included covers in their respective albums. On The Sing-Off, judge Shawn Stockman, of Boyz II Men fame, mentioned that the song had been offered to them first, Amazed is in the key of A♭ major with a vocal range from F3 to A♭4. Lonestars rendition is the single from their 1999 album Lonely Grill. The song spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart that same year. With this accomplishment, it set a record for the longest run at one on the country chart since Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems was initiated in 1990. This run was later tied by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffetts 2003 single Its Five OClock Somewhere, Amazed spent 41 weeks on the country singles chart, giving it the second-longest chart run of any country single in the 1990s. In addition, the single crossed over into the pop airwaves entering the Billboard Hot 100 at number 81 and it peaked at number 24 on before falling off the Hot 100. It had sold 1,628,000 digital copies in the US as of December 2015, Amazed was then remixed for pop radio and the new mixs popularity prompted the single to re-enter the Hot 100 at number 45. On this second run, it hit number one on March 4,2000. In doing so, it became the first new song to top the pop charts since Kenny Rogers. It also made Lonestar the first country band to place a song in the top ten of the Hot 100 year-end countdown. All remixes of the made the single spend a combined total of 55 weeks in the Hot 100. Only five years after Amazed topped the Billboard Hot 100 did another country song top the chart, as Carrie Underwoods Inside Your Heaven debuted at one on the Hot 100

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Baby I'm Yours (Barbara Lewis song)
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Baby Im Yours is a song written by Van McCoy, which was a hit in 1965 for Barbara Lewis, the original recording artist. The song was featured in the 1995 film The Bridges of Madison County and was included on the soundtrack album and it was also featured in the TV movies The Midnight Hour and An American Crime. Barbara Lewis first recorded Baby Im Yours in a January 8,1965 Atlantic Recording Studios session directed by Bert Berns with the producer assigned to Lewiss manager Ollie McLaughlin. Ollie told me Barbara, were gonna have to go back to Detroit and we gotta do your vocals over. Youre just not giving like you should on the song and we did several takes and he was wondering How am I going to get this girl to give. He said You know, Barbara, Karen can sing that song better than you, I did one more take, and that was the take that they selected. It has also reported that Lewis dubbed her vocal in a Chicago studio. Baby Im Yours afforded Lewis a #5 R&B chart hit, a version by Peter and Gordon was released on 1965 by Columbia, the track would be included on the duos 1966 Lady Godiva album. A higher-profile act also on the Columbia roster, Peter and Gordon, had the UK hit version of the song, released October 15,1965, the Peter and Gordon version was recorded in an Abbey Road session produced by Norman Newell and featuring Big Jim Sullivan on guitar. Peter Asher — who was partnered with Gordon Waller as Peter and Gordon — would recall, Baby Im Yours is unique among Peter and Gordon singles as their sole collaboration with arranger Tony Osborne, who took over from the duos original regular collaborator Geoff Love. Baby Im Yours was the first Peter and Gordon UK single not be released concurrently in the US, millers recording of Baby Im Yours featured the Jordanaires chorale. Impressed by the 1968 Tammy Wynette hit Stand by Your Man, Cass Elliots remake of Baby Im Yours was released in February 1972 at the same time as its parent album Cass Elliot. Elliots version was produced by Lewis Merenstein and arranged/conducted by Benny Golson, neither Baby Im Yours or That Song afforded Elliot an appearance on a Billboard chart. Elliots Baby Im Yours charted on the Canadian Adult Contemporary hitlist, the song reached #33 in United Kingdom charts. Peter Noone, the co-writer of God Knows, has alleged was originally intended to be the A-side, but the record company chickened out and went with cover of Baby Im Yours instead. Boones Baby Im Yours peaked at #33 C&W while on the Hot 100 the track peaked at #74 and on the Easy Listening it reached #14, both in a tandem ranking with God Knows. CD single Baby Im Yours God Knows Tanya Tucker recorded Baby Im Yours for her sole Arista album release Changes, from which the song was issued as the single in July 1983. Chers version was arranged to replicate Barbara Lewis hit, and was produced by Peter Asher, in the episode of the NBC-TV series American Dreams entitled And Promises to Keep, Barbara Lewis — portrayed by Vanessa Soul — is seen rehearsing Baby Im Yours for an American Bandstand performance

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...Baby One More Time (song)
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. Baby One More Time is the debut single by American singer Britney Spears. It was written and produced by Max Martin and Rami, and released in 1998 and it is one of the best-selling singles of all time, with over 15 million copies sold. The music video was referenced in the music video of If U Seek Amy. In 2010, the video for. Baby One More Time was voted the third most influential video in the history of pop music. In 2011. Baby One More Time was voted the best music video of the 1990s and it has been featured on all of her greatest hits and other compilation albums. Spears has performed. Baby One More Time in a number of live appearances and it was the encore of the. Baby One More Time Tour and Dream Within a Dream Tour, Spears also performed remixed versions of the song during the Oops. It has been noted for redefining the sound of late 1990s music, Spears has named. Baby One More Time as one of her favorite songs from her career. It was also the song to be played on the BBCs music programme Top of the Pops in the 1990s. In June 1997, Spears was in talks with manager Lou Pearlman to join female pop group Innosense, lynne Spears asked family friend and entertainment lawyer Larry Rudolph for his opinion and submitted a tape of Spears singing over a Whitney Houston karaoke song along with some pictures. Rudolph decided he wanted to pitch her to record labels, therefore she needed a professional demo and he sent Spears an unused song from Toni Braxton, she rehearsed for a week and recorded her vocals in a studio with a sound engineer. Spears traveled to New York with the demo and met executives from four labels. Two weeks later, executives from JIVE Records returned calls to Rudolph, senior vice president of A&R Jeff Fenster stated about Spearss audition that Its very rare to hear someone that age who can deliver emotional content and commercial appeal. For any artist, the eye of the tiger— is extremely important. They appointed her to work with producer Eric Foster White for a month, after hearing the recorded material, president Clive Calder ordered a full album. She flew to Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, where half of the album was recorded from March to April 1998, with producers Max Martin, Denniz Pop and Rami Yacoub, among others. Spears later claimed that she felt excited when she heard it, Spears recorded her vocals for the song on May 2nd and 3rd of 1998 at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. The singer revealed that she didn’t do well at all the first day in the studio, so I went out that night and had some fun. The next day I was completely relaxed and nailed it and you gotta be relaxed singing ‘… Baby One More Time’

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Beauty and the Beast (Disney song)
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Beauty and the Beast is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for the Disney animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. Lansbury was initially hesitant to record Beauty and the Beast because she felt that it was not suitable for her singing voice. In order to promote the film, Disney decided to release Beauty and the Beast as a single, and first recruited solely Dion to record a radio-friendly version of it. At first Dion was also hesitant to record Beauty and the Beast because she had just recently been fired from recording the song of the animated film An American Tail. First heard during the end credits, the single was produced by Walter Afanasieff who also arranged it with Robbie Buchanan. The single was accompanied by a music video, directed by Dominic Orlando, it combined footage of the singers recording the song at The Power Station with excerpts from the film. The single was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Lansburys performance has been lauded by both film and music critics. In addition to returning Disney songs to the pop charts after an absence, the success of Beauty. Considered to be among Disneys best and most popular songs, Beauty, in 2004, the American Film Institute officially recognized Beauty and the Beast as one of the greatest songs in film history, ranking it 62nd. Grande and Legends version of the song is an homage to the performed by Dion and Bryson for the 1991 film. Beauty and the Beast was written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken in 1990, intending for the song to be the height of simplicity, the songwriters drew much of its influence from Broadway music. Due to Ashmans failing health, some of Beauty and the Beasts pre-production was relocated to a hotel in Fishkill, Out of all the songs he has written for Beauty and the Beast, Menken devoted the most time to the title song. The track was first recorded by British-American actress Angela Lansbury, who voices the character Mrs. Potts, the songwriters first introduced Beauty and the Beast to Lansbury as a demo recording, which was accompanied by a note asking her if she might possibly be interested in singing it. Lansbury suggested that the songwriters ask someone else to sing Beauty and the Beast, on the day of her scheduled recording session, Lansburys flight was delayed due to a bomb threat, which prompted an emergency landing in Las Vegas. Unaware of her whereabouts for several hours, the filmmakers had begun making plans to reschedule the session until Lansbury finally telephoned the studio once she arrived safely in New York, ultimately, Lansbury recorded her version in one take, which wound up being used in the final film. Producer Don Hahn recalled that the actress simply sang Beauty and the Beast from beginning to end and we picked up a couple of lines here and there, but essentially that one take is what we used for the movie. Lansburys performance moved everyone who was present in the studio at the time to tears

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Bohemian Rhapsody
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Bohemian Rhapsody is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the bands 1975 album A Night at the Opera and it is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus, an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre and it was reportedly the most expensive single ever made at the time of its release, though the exact cost of production cannot be determined. It reached number one again in 1991 for another five weeks when the version was re-released. It is also the song to be Christmas number one twice by the same artist. It topped the charts in other markets as well, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and The Netherlands. In the United States the song peaked at number nine in 1976. It returned to the chart at two in 1992 following Freddie Mercurys death in 1991, as well as its appearance in the film Waynes World. Although critical reaction was mixed, Bohemian Rhapsody remains one of Queens most popular songs and is frequently placed on modern lists of the greatest songs of all time. The single was accompanied by a video, which many scholars consider ground-breaking. Rolling Stone magazine states, Its influence cannot be overstated, practically inventing the music video seven years before MTV went on the air, in 2004, Bohemian Rhapsody was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2012, the song topped the list on an ITV nationwide poll in the UK to find The Nations Favourite Number One over 60 years of music, Freddie Mercury wrote Bohemian Rhapsody at his home in London. Then we went out to eat dinner, guitarist Brian May says the band thought that Mercurys blueprint for the song was intriguing and original, and worthy of work. According to May, much of Queens material was written in the studio, commenting on bohemianism, Judith Peraino said that Mercury intended. In terms of execution, the song is preceded by the Beach Boys 1966 single Good Vibrations and this echoes the opener of a 1962 b-side called Mama by Roy Orbison, which is also on Roy Orbisons Greatest Hits. Recording began at Rockfield Studio 1 near Monmouth on 24 August 1975, after a rehearsal at Penrhos Court, near Kington. During the making of the track, an additional four studios were used, according to some band members, Mercury mentally prepared the song beforehand and directed the band throughout. Mercury used a Bechstein concert grand piano, which he played in the promotional video, due to the elaborate nature of the song, it was recorded in various sections, held together by a click track to keep all layers synchronised

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Because You Loved Me
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Because You Loved Me is a song recorded by Canadian singer Celine Dion for her fourth English-language studio album, Falling into You. It was released on 20 February 1996, as the first single in North America, South America and it was released as the second single from the album in Australia, on 29 April 1996, and in May 1996 in Europe. Because You Loved Me was written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster, because You Loved Me received critical acclaim and became a worldwide hit, reaching number one in the United States, Canada and Australia, and reaching top ten in many other countries. In the United States alone, it has sold two million copies. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, because You Loved Me was written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster. Both Warren and Foster worked with Dion on her previous English-language albums, Warren said that the song was a tribute to her father. Because You Loved Me served as the song from the 1996 film Up Close & Personal, starring Robert Redford. However, the song was not included on the films soundtrack, because You Loved Me was released as the first single from Falling into You in North America, South America and Asia in February 1996. It was issued as the single in Australia and Europe. The song is written in the key of D♭ major with a tempo of 60 beats per minute. Dions vocals span from A♭3 to E♭5 in the song, the final chorus is set in E♭ major. Because You Loved Me received positive reviews music critics. Another Billboard editor, Paul Verna also highlighted the chart-topping Because You Loved Me, Stephen Holden of The New York Times praised it calling it this years Wind Beneath My Wings. Positive review also came from editor of AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine who praised ballads like Because You Loved Me on Falling into You. In the United States, Because You Loved Me became Dions second number one single and it topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks and ended the reign at the top of One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. Because You Loved Me also topped the Adult Contemporary Singles for nineteen weeks, in the following years, only five songs spent more time at the top, including Dions own A New Day Has Come in 2002. In April 1996, it was certified Platinum by the RIAA for selling one million copies in the US. As of April 2012, Because You Loved Me has sold 1,343,000 physical copies and 704,000 digital units, for a total of 2,047,000 copies

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Believe (Cher song)
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Believe is a song recorded by American singer-actress Cher. It is the track from her twenty-second album of the same name. A considerable departure from Chers work at the time, Believe abandoned the singers then pop rock-based repertoire in favor of being more club-friendly, Believe is an upbeat dance-pop song. The song is one of the first commercial recordings to feature the audio processor software Auto-Tune as a vocal effect and this technique would eventually become known as the Cher effect. Lyrically, the song is about the empowerment and self-sufficiency after a painful break-up. The song was nominated for two Grammy Awards, for Record of the Year and Best Dance Recording, winning the latter. It earned Cher a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest female solo artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart and it also became the highest-selling single by a solo female artist in the United Kingdom. Believe remains one of the singles of all time with sales of over 11 million copies worldwide. Cher has performed the song in a number of live appearances and it has been covered by a number of artists, and has been featured in several elements of popular culture. Scholars and academics noted the way in which Cher was able to re-invent herself and remain fresh and they also credited Believe as the song which restored the singers popularity and cemented her position as a pop culture icon. Originally written by Brian Higgins, Matthew Gray, Stuart McLennen and Timothy Powell and circulated on Warner as a demo for months, nobody wanted it. Mark Taylor said that everyone loved the chorus but not the rest of the song, As we were already writing songs for Cher. Two of our writers, Steve Torch and Paul Barry, got involved and eventually came up with a song that Rob. The hard part was trying to one that wouldnt alienate Chers existing fans. After the songs success, Cher claimed in a December 2000 BBC radio interview that she also co-wrote part of the song, saying I wrote part of Believe — the second verse. The first verse was this woman who was sad that this guy was going, the song was recorded approximately in ten days in Surrey, United Kingdom. Chers voice is altered by a pitch correction speed that is set too fast for the audio that it is processing, producer Mark Taylor added the effect to Chers vocal simply as a kind of mischievous experiment. In interviews at the time, he claimed to be testing out his recently purchased DigiTech Talker and it later emerged that the effect was not created by a vocoder, but by using extreme settings on Antares Auto-Tune

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The Best (song)
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The Best is a song written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight, originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler on her 1988 release Hide Your Heart. The single reached number 10 in Norway and number 95 in the United Kingdom, the single was released on a CD in 1988 along with two rare tracks that Tyler recorded, The Fire Below and Under Suspicion. The song was covered by Tina Turner, and released as a highly successful single in 1989. It was included on her hit album Foreign Affair, the saxophone solo on Turners version is played by Edgar Winter. Holly Knight told Songfacts, Simply the Best is one of those rare gems thats a positive song, but the hard part is to write something in a positive mode that really is sincere — thats a tall order. In 1992 Turner recorded The Best, a version of the song with Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes. The single subsequently appeared on a limited bonus disc as part of the Australian release of her compilation album Simply The Best. The song was used during the ceremony that the San Francisco 49ers held as they retired number 16 in honor of quarterback Joe Montana. The song was used during the ceremonies that the Pittsburgh Penguins held as they retired, un-retired, the song was used during the ceremony that the Philadelphia 76ers held as they retired number 3 in honor of Allen Iverson. It was also played on August 13th,2016 in Yankee Stadium when the New York Yankees held a ceremony to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the 1996 World Champion team, the Rangers listened to it before the game. It was continued to be played as the Rangers skated around the ice at the Garden with the Stanley Cup. On the CBC, Bob Cole and Harry Neale said that the crowd responded when the song was played over the PA system when the players skated around the ice, as they had throughout the game. Bonnie Tylers version of the song was used in a video for WWE wrestler Edge that aired on the July 20,2007 edition of WWE Friday Night SmackDown. This consisted of a 2-hour replay of the game, showing all 27 outs recorded for the night, as well as the 4 minute musical montage, entitled Rookie Magic. Additionally, Senator Joe Biden used Turners recording as the song for his 2008 campaign for the presidency. Jim Carrey performed a few lines of the song in his speech to Meryl Streep during her AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony in 2004. Rush Limbaugh frequently plays Turners version in his bumper music rotation, alec Baldwins character in 30 Rock sings a verse of the chorus while looking at a picture of his boss during an episode in season one. On April 19,2010 Rangers FC fans began a campaign to get The Best to number one in the UK Pop Charts and it subsequently charted at number nine on the UK Singles Chart

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All by Myself
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All by Myself is a power ballad by American artist Eric Carmen released in 1975. The verse is based on the movement of Sergei Rachmaninoffs Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor. The chorus is borrowed from the song Lets Pretend, which Carmen wrote, the song was the first released on Carmens first solo LP after leaving the power pop group the Raspberries and was released as the first single in December 1975, to great acclaim. It reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 1 on Cash Box Top 100 Singles, the single sold more than one million copies in the United States and was certified gold by the RIAA in April 1976. All By Myself was Carmens first of eight US Top 40 hits, in the UK, however, this was his only Top 40 success, peaking at number 12. In a 2006 poll for UKs Five programme Britains Favourite Break-up Songs, Carmen thought that Rachmaninoffs music was in the public domain and no copyright existed on it. Subsequent to the release of the album, he was contacted by the Rachmaninoff estate, Carmen has stated that he also incorporated part of another melody into this song. The melody was taken from his previous hit with the Raspberries, Carmens original version has spawned numerous cover versions by such artists as Rico J. Puno in 1976, Celine Dion in 1996, Frank Sinatra, Igudesman & Joo, Il Divo, and Only Men Aloud. One of the most notable versions of All by Myself was recorded by Celine Dion in 1996. It was the hit single from her album Falling into You. Produced by David Foster at Compass Point Studios in The Bahamas, it was released on October 7,1996 in Europe, January 13,1997 in Australia, there were three music videos made. The first one was released in October 1996 and it contains fragments from Dions photo session for the Falling into You album cover and some scenes from her Live à Paris concert. It was made for the version and it was directed by Nigel Dick. The second version was made for the UK market with the same white T-shirt scenes but adding footage of a couple in love at Christmas time. This was made for the album version, finally, a live music video was released in March 1997 in North America. Dion performed this song many times during world tours, TV shows and music such as the Grammy Awards, Billboard Music Awards. A performance from her 2008-2009 Taking Chances Tour can be found on the Taking Chances World Tour and it is currently included in the set list of Dions Las Vegas residency show Céline which premiered on March 15,2011. The song was performed during the 2013 Sans attendre Tour

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Alone (Heart song)
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Alone is a song composed by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. It first appeared via Steinberg and Kellys 1983 pet project, I-Ten and it was later recorded by Valerie Stevenson and John Stamos in their roles as Lisa Copley and Gino Minelli, on the original soundtrack of the CBS sitcom Dreams in 1984. American rock band Heart made it a number-one US and Canadian hit in 1987, twenty years later, Celine Dion recorded it for her album Taking Chances. Heart released the song as the first single from their studio album, Bad Animals. Their version is a ballad that begins with a piano line. The song has been covered numerous times on American Idol, according to a Songfacts interview with Steinberg, Kelly provided the high harmony parts on the record. Alone is Hearts biggest hit, spending three weeks at No.1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 that July and it ranked No.2 on the Billboard Year-End Top Pop Singles of 1987, behind Walk Like An Egyptian by The Bangles. The songs popular video featured the band in a live performance. An unplugged version of the later appeared on Hearts 1995 album The Road Home. An extended version of Alone clocking in at 5,30 was released in Japan as the B-side to Hearts third single from Bad Animals and this Long Version is exclusive to this 3 mini-CD single, and not found on any other release. Celine Dion covered Alone for her ninth English-language studio album Taking Chances and it was released as the second single in Europe and North America, and third in the United Kingdom, while Eyes on Me was released as the second single in the United Kingdom instead. Alone was produced by Ben Moody, ex-member of Evanescence, the version received mixed reviews from music critics, who thought that the cover was too similar with the original, considering it a dull and carbon-copy version. Dion covered Alone for her tenth English studio album Taking Chances, the version was produced by Ben Moody, former member of rock band Evanescence. Dions version features tinkling pianos and enveloping strings and it was released as the second single in Europe and North America, and third in the United Kingdom. The digital single release in the UK on May 5,2008 was coincided with the British leg of the Taking Chances World Tour, in October 2008, Alone was included on the European version of My Love, Essential Collection. A live version was included in the Taking Chances World Tour, music critics were divided on Alone. Great vocal, terrific melody, a rendition, but Alone is already indelibly stamped by Hearts Ann Wilson. Toronto Star editor Ashante Infantry called this song sentimental, cringe-worthy diva track, chuck Taylor of Billboard called it a rowdy cover

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Anytime You Need a Friend
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Anytime You Need a Friend is a song by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. The song was written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasieff, for her studio album. It was released on May 31,1994 through Columbia Records, as the fourth, the song is influenced by pop, R&B and gospel music genres. While the album focused heavily on pop oriented and radio friendly material, Anytime You Need a Friend deviated from the formula, lyrically, the songs protagonist tells her love interest that anytime he may need a friend, she will be there unconditionally for him. Throughout the songs bridge and climax, critics noted the lyrics altering from those of a friend, to those of a lover. The song was received by contemporary music critics, many of which praised Careys large spanning vocal range. Aside from its acceptance, the song achieved strong worldwide chart positions and peaked at number twelve on the US Billboard Hot 100. Additionally, it peaked at five in Canada and topped the singles charts in Finland. The song attained a top-twenty peak position in Australia, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, additionally, the song served as a closing number on Careys Music Box and Daydream World Tours, and was featured on her compilation albums, Greatest Hits and The Ballads. The songs music video was filmed by Danielle Federici, in New York during the summer of 1994, the video was filmed in black-and-white fashion, and features Careys first image makeover, where she appears with a straightened hairstyle for the first time in her career. As the video progresses, the child and man are befriended after brief interludes, the songs C+C remix also features its own music video, displaying behind the scenes footage of Carey and her staff enjoying themselves during the original videos filming. For her third studio effort, Columbia Records decided to market Carey in a fashion to that of her debut, only having her produce a more commercial. Their plans were to tone down Careys vocals, and soften the albums production, agreeing to the change, Carey and Afanasieff began writing and recording material for her third studio effort, Music Box. On the albums first track Dreamlover, Carey worked with Dave Hall throughout the entire production. In order to help some of the songs arrangements, Mottola enrolled the help of Walter Afanasieff. Music Box received mixed response from contemporary critics, who suggested that in lowering Careys vocal bombast, her energy level decreased. Anytime You Need a Friend is a song which draws influence from pop, R&B. It has a sequence of Am/C–Bm7–E7/G♯–Am as its chord progression, Careys vocals in the song span over three octaves, from the low note of an E3 to the high note of a B♭6

"Beauty and the Beast" is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for the Disney animated …

At first English actress Angela Lansbury was hesitant to record "Beauty and the Beast" because it had been written in a style with which she was unfamiliar; she ultimately recorded the song in one take.

The success of "Beauty and the Beast" established Canadian singer Celine Dion as an international recording artist.

The song has been parodied and referenced both visually and musically in many forms. This Beauty and King Dork sequence is from the pilot of The Critic.